Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader through a landscape where waking and dream consciousness fuse.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her poetry collections are Song (BOA Editions), the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Award, and To the Place of Trumpets, selected by James Merrill for the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.

Synopsis:

An ambitious new collection by the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award winner.

Synopsis:

Poetry. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award, Kelly's richly allusive poems evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader through a landscape where waking and dream consciousness fuse. Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches creative wrting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About the Author

Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also teaches at numerous writers'conferences in the United States and Ireland. Her poetry collections are Song (BOA Editions), the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a Finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Award, and To the Place of Trumpets, selected by James Merrill for the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

An ambitious new collection by the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award winner.

"Synopsis"
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Poetry. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award, Kelly's richly allusive poems evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader through a landscape where waking and dream consciousness fuse. Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches creative wrting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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